George Henry White

George Henry White (18 December 1852-28 December 1918) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NC 2) from 4 March 1897 to 3 March 1901, succeeding Frederick A. Woodard and preceding Claude Kitchin.

Biography
George Henry White was born in Rosindale, Bladen County, North Carolina in 1852 to a free biracial father and a slave mother. He graduated from Howard University in 1877 and became a school principal in New Bern and then a lawyer in 1879, and he served in the State House from 1880 to 1882. From 1884 to 1886, he served in the State Senate, and he served as a solicitor and prosecuting attorney from 1886 to 1894, as a delegate to the Republican National Conventions of 1896 and 1900, and as a member of the US House of Representatives from 1897 to 1901. When he gave his farewell address to the US Congress on 29 January 1901, he said that it was perhaps the negroes' temporary farewell to the Congress and that they would eventually rise like a Phoenix and come again, and his departure was seen as the end of Reconstruction's final product in the nation's capital. He died in 1918.